When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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